"Noi non potemo avere perfetta vita senza amici." Students of the Italian Club spent some time together decorating masks this week to observe Venezia Carnavale. Carnevale is celebrated in Italy and many places around the world 40 days before Easter, a final party before Ash Wednesday and the restrictions of Lent. | Photos by Lee Pellegrini

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Elizabeth Carcieri '21 and students of the Italian Club painting and decorating masks as part of Venezia Carnavale. | Photo by Lee Pellegrini

"Noi non potemo avere perfetta vita senza amici." Students of the Italian Club spent some time together decorating masks this week to observe Venezia Carnavale. Carnevale is celebrated in Italy and many places around the world 40 days before Easter, a final party before Ash Wednesday and the restrictions of Lent. | Photos by Lee Pellegrini

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Elizabeth Carcieri '21 and students of the Italian Club painting and decorating masks as part of Venezia Carnavale. | Photo by Lee Pellegrini

Boston College - Woods College of Advancing Studies and the FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation will host the second annual Boston Conference on Cyber Security on March 7. The event brings to campus academicians, private industry, and law enforcement officials to collaborate on how to best prevent and respond to attacks on public and private information systems.

BC, FBI to Host Second Boston Conference on Cyber Security

Boston College and the Federal Bureau of Investigation will hold the second Boston Conference on Cyber Security, BCCS 2018, on March 7, bringing together academicians, private industry, and law enforcement to collaborate on how to best prevent and respond to attacks on public and private information systems.

Boston College will introduce an interdisciplinary minor in journalism this fall as a two-year pilot program, open to undergraduates across the University. Associate Professor of English and African and African Diaspora Studies Angela Ards, who developed the program with Professor of English and Director of American Studies Carlo Rotella, will serve as director of the minor.

BC Pilots Interdisciplinary Journalism Minor

Program faculty include veteran, accomplished journalism professionals along with scholars drawing on literary, business/management, medical, technological and other perspectives. Some 30 undergraduates are expected to be in the first cohort of journalism minors.

Should the cost of a commuter rail trips be higher for some Bostonians than others? City Councilor Michelle Wu doesn't think so and is trying to organize Boston residents to press the T for cheaper fares for a few city neighborhoods. Unlike the bus and subway, commuter rail fares are based on distance traveled.

Boston College is the WorkWell Massachusetts Silver Level winner for exemplary worksite health promotion, in recognition of the University's achievements in developing, implementing and participating in corporate health improvement and wellness programs.

Boston College is named a WorkWell Massachusetts Silver Level winner for exemplary worksite health promotion, in recognition of the University's achievements in developing, implementing and participating in corporate health improvement and wellness programs.

Rev. Maurice Agbaw-Ebai, a priest from Cameroon who received his licentiate in sacred theology from the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry in 2015, is currently assigned to St. Mary Parish in Georgetown and Rowley, Mass. while he pursues a double doctorate in theology and philosophy at STM and serves as a graduate assistant at the Boston College - Woods College of Advancing Studies. In a feature story, he discusses the vibrancy of the African church, as well as his own call to the priesthood, with the The Eagle-Tribune.

Six Boston College hockey Eagles will represent the Team USA on the ice at the Olympic Games in South Korea. Cayla Barnes '22, Kali Flanagan '19, Megan Keller '19, Emily Pfalzer '15 and Haley Skarupa '16 will skate with the women's Team USA, while Brian Gionta '01 will captain the men's team. h/t Boston College Athletics Boston College Alumni

Eagles at the Olympics

"We're extremely proud of our Boston College players who made the Olympic team," said women's hockey head coach Katie Crowley, herself a three-time Olympian (1998, 2002, 2006). "It's an exciting time for them and their families. They've done a tremendous job working to get themselves prepared and it's an awesome achievement for them.

Why do people tend to approach a child in distress, but avoid a distressed adult? Searching for clues to complex social behaviors, a team of BC researchers have learned that the brain's insular cortex and the hormone oxytocin play a role. #BCResearch

Insular Cortex Mediates Approach/Avoidance to Others in Distress

The brain's insular cortex, which processes senses and emotions, controls reactions like approach to or avoidance of others through the action of the hormone oxytocin, a team of Boston College researchers reports in the latest edition of the journal Nature Neuroscience.

Join us at West on Centre February 27th from 6:30-9:00pm for WRMS Annual Meeting

WRMS Annual Meeting - West Roxbury Main Streets

West Roxbury Main Streets is a non-profit organization that concentrates on the economic revitalization of the business district. Our goal is to make West Roxbury an even better place to live and do business.

McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College presents the first United States exhibition of works by contemporary Chinese artist Cao Jun through June 3. See a few of Jun's works in the collection below. As always, McMullen exhibitions and events are free and open to the public. Free docent tours are available on Sundays at 2:00 pm.

Hymns to Nature

BC's McMullen Museum of Art presents the first U.S. exhibition of works by contemporary Chinese artist Cao Jun Art & Culture / Fine Arts - Published on February 05, 2018 Poetic Water 如诗之水, 2013, mixed media on canvas, from Cao Jun: Hymns to Nature at BC's McMullen Museum of Art.

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